WELLFLEET — Town Administrator Dan Hoort announced Friday that he is resigning from his job after four years, effective June 30. Hoort, a Provincetown innkeeper, holds a degree in accounting and was the head of the municipal finance department for the town of Provincetown before coming to Wellfleet in 2016. “It has been my pleasure […]
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MLK WEEKEND
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Highlights
Though the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born on Jan. 15, 1929, his birthday is memorialized on a federal holiday on the third Monday in January each year. In 2020, that Monday is Jan. 20. On the Outer Cape, commemorative activities and exhibits throughout the weekend are mostly located in […]
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This Week in Wellfleet
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Jan. 16 Herring River Executive Council, 3 p.m., Council on Aging Monday, Jan. 20 Town Hall closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tuesday, Jan. 21 Community-wide Production Information Session, 6 p.m., Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Conversation Starters Bacon Won’t Run Again Kathleen Bacon announced at the Jan. 7 select board meeting […]
HOUSING
Task Force Envisions Up to 46 New Rental Units
Apartments near school would be in two clusters
WELLFLEET — The 11-member task force that has been planning for affordable rental housing across from the Wellfleet Elementary School presented its work so far to a receptive audience of more than 70 townspeople on Monday. The panel sees up to 46 one-, two-, and three-bedroom units serving a range of low- to moderate-income tenants […]
CURRENTS
Meetings and Conversation Starters, Town by Town
Provincetown Meetings Ahead Thursday, Jan. 9 Bicycle Committee, 2 p.m., Maushop Community Room, 44 Harry Kemp Way Economic Development Committee, 11 a.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center, 2 Mayflower Lane Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Monday, Jan. 13 Select Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall Tuesday, Jan. 14 Public Landscaping Committee, 2 p.m., Town Hall Wednesday, […]
UPDATE
Mass Appeal Still Looking for New Home
Landlord MacGregor remains elusive
WELLFLEET — Mass Appeal, a nonprofit that has given away donated clothing at Cove Corner for the last 23 years, still has no place to go following a Nov. 1 letter from the landlord telling them they had to leave. Bruce MacGregor, owner of the Route 6 strip mall that houses a Dunkin’ Donuts and […]
ENVIRONMENT
Wellfleet Resident Challenges Shark Mitigation Study
Says visual detection technology was improperly evaluated
WELLFLEET — Kristian Sexton, who says he is developing an aerial imaging system using drones to detect sharks, claims that there are “a number of serious problems” with the Woods Hole Group (WHG) Shark Mitigation Study that was presented at a public forum in October at Nauset Regional High School. After the forum, which was […]
WINTER HOURS
It’s Cold, You’re Hungry, You Have Options
Restaurateurs say they can be creative in winter
Every restaurant is a fiefdom, each with its own miniature culture and specifics so particular that it’s difficult to write about a lot of restaurants at once. Yet we Outer Cape year-rounders can all bond instantly around a shared hunger for restaurants that stay open in winter. And an objective look at the winter eating […]
UNLIT LIGHTHOUSE
Alterations Are Coming to Main Street
Longtime fixture will be replaced by clothing store
WELLFLEET — The Lighthouse Restaurant, a bright spot for 40 years on this town’s dimming Main Street, is gone. What was a restaurant is now being renovated to become a new location for the women’s clothing store Ragg Time. Concern about the future of what had been one of the few year-round eating places here […]
BABYCAKES
Essie Arrives on Christmas
Essie Van Staden was born on Dec. 25, 2019 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She weighed six pounds and measured 17 inches. Her parents, Natalie and Gray Van Staden of Wellfleet, report that she was expected home from the neonatal intensive care unit on Tuesday, just in time for New Year’s. […]
ROAD POET
Metter
This is for my second hometown I said this poem is for my second hometown Metter, Ga. It’s OK if you have to google it The first time I went the name I kept confusing it Mettle. Middle. Mecca. Southern drawl had me thinking it was one or all of these My roots to slavery […]
William S. McFeely, 89, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Historian and longtime Wellfleet resident William S. McFeely died on Dec. 11, 2019, in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 89 years old. Born in New York City, Bill, as he was known, grew up in Wyckoff, N.J., and attended Amherst College. After eight years working as a banker, he pursued a Ph.D. in American studies […]
THRIFT
Mass Appeal Told to Vacate by Landlord
‘We are hoping we can change their minds,’ says its director
WELLFLEET — After 23 years in the same location on Route 6, Mass Appeal must find a new home. The nonprofit that gives out free used clothes to residents of the Outer Cape received a letter on Nov. 1 signed by landlord J. Bruce MacGregor telling the group they must be out by Jan. 31, […]
OBITUARIES
‘Magical Marty’ Buckosh, 62, Intelligence Officer, Hammock Seller
WELLFLEET — Martin “Marty” Alexander Buckosh died in his sleep on Nov. 5, 2019 while recovering at his Wellfleet home from a bicycle accident. He was 62. Marty, the youngest of four boys, was a 1975 graduate of Lorain Catholic High School in Ohio. From 1975 to 1978 he served in the U.S. Army with […]
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From Washington to Wellfleet: Social Justice Activists on a Mission
Kathy Fletcher, David Simpson, and their “kids” plan a residency for young artists
WELLFLEET — Before Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson founded a nonprofit to help inner-city kids go to college, as many as seven teenagers were living with them in their three-bedroom Washington, D.C. rowhouse. They were buying phones, laptops, and “thousands of phone chargers,” said Simpson. Money was flying out the door $100 at a time, […]
